The US National Institute of Standards and Technology, or NIST, defines a proxy server as “a server that services the requests of its clients by forwarding those requests to other servers.” ...

A DNS server – short for Domain Name System server – helps your web browser connect to the internet and load websites properly.

IMAP (short for Internet Message Access Protocol) is an internet protocol l that lets you sync your email inbox across ...

(THE CONVERSATION) When millions of people suddenly couldn’t load familiar websites and apps during the Amazon Web Services, or AWS, outage on Oct. 20, 2025, the affected servers weren’t actually down ...

Best practices include a focus on hardening user authentication and access, ensuring strong network encryption, and ...